Many thanks Peter, that works a treat. Just recapping for others who may be interested. The problem was to get a result table that was displaying like this:
mysql> select * from test; +-------+-------------+--------+ | name | question_id | answer | +-------+-------------+--------+ | Mark | 100 | Yes | | Mark | 101 | No | | Mark | 102 | Yes | | Mark | 103 | No | | Mark | 104 | Yes | | Leigh | 101 | No | | Leigh | 102 | Yes | | Leigh | 103 | No | | Leigh | 104 | Yes | | Leigh | 100 | Yes | +-------+-------------+--------+ 10 rows in set (0.00 sec) to display like this: +-------+------+------+------+------+------+ | name | Q100 | Q101 | Q102 | Q103 | Q104 | +-------+------+------+------+------+------+ | Leigh | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | | Mark | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | +-------+------+------+------+------+------+ 2 rows in set (0.01 sec) Solution: mysql> SELECT -> name, -> MAX( IF(question_id=100,answer,'') ) AS Q100, -> MAX( IF(question_id=101,answer,'') ) AS Q101, -> MAX( IF(question_id=102,answer,'') ) AS Q102, -> MAX( IF(question_id=103,answer,'') ) AS Q103, -> MAX( IF(question_id=104,answer,'') ) AS Q104 -> FROM test -> GROUP BY name; ________________________________ From: Peter Brawley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 26 July 2006 11:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Mark Dale; mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Re: Returning results as a field name Pardon me, too early & not enough coffee, that's not quite the 'max-concat trick', but it oughtta work. PB ----- -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]